Ballot on revised BC
Charter
At the request of
the BC Officers and with reference to the message below, I have today opened a
7-day voting period for the newly revised BC Charter.
A
majority approval vote means the new Charter will be adopted. A
majority non-approval vote means the Charter will not be
adopted.
A ballot form is
attached. Each member organisation has one vote. The vote should be placed by
the principle BC contact for the membership organisation or by notified proxy. I
will apply weighted voting when I receive your ballot form. All ballots
will be acknowledged.
The voting period
closes at midnight in your time zone on Sunday 15 November 2009. Ballots cannot be accepted after
this time.
Best
wishes
Gary
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We would like to ask
all members to cast their vote in favour of the attached revised BC
Charter.
A definitive PDF
version is attached.
The Charter
accommodates necessary changes for the re-structured GNSO in which the
stakeholder groups provide representatives to the GNSO
council.
As such the BC will
move from a situation in which its three GNSO representatives were also BC
Officers, to a separation of these roles.
There will be a new
executive committee with a chair and two vice-chairs and CSR rep in addition to the two
representatives to the GNSO Council.
The Charter also
includes other changes recommended by members and ICANN staff based on learning
since the last Charter.
The officers
have done their best to accommodate all member perspectives given the diversity
of those perspectives. Based on recent discussion
where there was member disagreement we have wherever possible reverted to the
text of the current charter which has served us
well.
Zahid
Jamil
Mike
Rodenbaugh
Philip
Sheppard
BC
Officers